I had read about an underground facility being bandied about in South Dakota.  It was disheartening to see this on the jobs website:

I had that sinking feeling when I first read of the underground facility…the report stated that it was considered, but was tabled.  Now we see it is back…

Just because the facility is underground does not mean it is safe.  Likely will poison the earth, as well.  This in turn would poison water underground.  I mean, we don’t even know what all it would do…and being out-of-sight, it would be even more difficult to discover what harm it has done.

There is no reason at all that radiation should be tested anywhere, anytime.  None.  As Ralph Nader once put it — nuclear energy is just a fancy way to boil water.

There are too many downsides to radioactive energy and dubious benefit.  You will never, ever be able to get rid of the waste so that someone, somewhere is not exposed.   As always, the destruction to Earth and to plants and to animals is conveniently ignored or downplayed by those who make profits off of the industry.  They are rarely held accountable (both legally and financially).

Fukushima is the most recent incident that shows how devastating radiation is.  This recent report states that radiation IS STILL A PROBLEM on the ship that served in the rescue mission after the nuclear accident.

Moving radioactive waste.

Karen Silkwood, an activist who mysteriously died in a car accident after raising awareness and demanding accountability by the nuclear industry.

Yassar Arafat poisoned with radioactive polonium.  This is the same poison allegedly used on the Russian opponent to Putin.

Finally, this one is especially important to the area that is now being used for this underground facility — Native Americans were told they would have to choose between casinos or nuclear waste facilities in order to be recognized as sovereign.  Now we have casinos…AND radioactive facilities.

I don’t think, as an economist, that I would hang my development policy on a casino. But the federal government says to Indian people, “I will recognize your sovereignty if you have either a nuclear or toxic-waste dump or casino.” That’s pretty much the only way you get your sovereignty recognized as Indian people.
Let me be clear about this: We are sovereign. I don’t care if the federal government recognizes me, my nation, and my people. That’s of little consequence to me in the long-term picture. The federal government, as far as I’m concerned, is by and large illegal. Most transactions are illegal. It’s like being recognized by a bunch of hoodlums.

~~~Winona LaDuke

It’s like the continuation of genocide — only instead of bioterrorism (smallpox in blankets) or killing nearly all the buffalo, it’s poisoning with radioactive uranium mining, poisoning the river with lead, mercury, and arsenic; and now an underground facility with unknown radiation.

Why must we all be subjected to this over and over?

Because nuclear is a weapon of war.  And there are those saying Syria will be our WWIII, with nuclear being used as the final solution.

God help us.

Watching HLN just now, they announced that genetically modified mosquitoes are being released in Florida….to combat the non-threat of the Zika virus.  Un-freaking-believable.

As someone opposed to this stated — We don’t want to be Big Pharma’s guinea pigs for their big mosquito experiment.  They have no idea how these genetically modified beings are going to affect one’s health.  Going on history, they have created more problems than they have cured.  Just look at any Big Pharma product’s ad — there are as many side effects as are *cough* cures.  And when people start having side effects that seriously impact their health, they are ignored, laughed at, and being told they are hypochondriacs (usually women).

This is wrong, wrong, wrong.  These monsters have nothing on Dr. Mengele.  Just plain evil.

My other posts on Zika virus here and here; and the post of the devastating effects of Lupron/Synarel here, here, and here.

Farmer’s Almanac has a piece up on garden planning for beginners…Enjoy.

So…I flipped on cspan.org.  Loretta Lynch is testifying about the Apple case.  Dianne Feinstein was doing her best to couch the breaking of Fourth Amendment rights to get at the phone of the non-terrorists of the *cough*  San Bernardino terrorist non-attack by crisis actors.  While I’m watching, this guy behind her to her left catches my eye.

As I watched him, he is constantly looking around the room.  He’s got an ear piece in, too.  I guess he could be secret service detail, but something just struck me about him and it wasn’t a good feeling.

I mean, we take for granted that he is secret service and go on about our business.

But with all the politicians ending up with black eyes and broken noses…somebody is not protecting them.  What if this guy is an Israeli agent?  Or some other agent there to make sure Lynch doesn’t step out of line?  As I was watching just moments ago, as she was talking, he got this look on his face that he disliked what she was saying…

Again, this is just me talking…but something is not right here.

**edited:  I replaced “First” Amendment with “Fourth” Amendment.  So many violations of the Constitution…so little time…

So…I went to check in at the geoengineeringwatch.org site, and found a commenter left a quote by Paul Craig Roberts.  He asserts that the economy is more of a threat than terrorists….so I went to Roberts’ website and found a compelling article on electronic banking.  All of my worst fears of cyber-funds are voiced by Roberts.  Keep in mind that Roberts is not a “libtard” as some uncharitable folks have called them, but a conservative whom has had his eyes opened.

From the report:

The response of depositors to negative interest rates has resulted in neoliberal economists, such as Larry Summers, calling for the elimination of large denomination bank notes in order to make it difficult for people to keep their cash balances outside of banks.

In the electronic world, control of your money is given to banks.  As we saw recently with Dr. Tracy, paypal froze his account for no reason at all.  They claimed the “nature of your activities” was reason enough for them to withhold HIS money.

Electronic money cannot be removed from bank deposits except by spending it. With electronic money as the only money, financial institutions can use negative interest rates in order to steal the savings of their depositors.

…and there we go.  Remember when people used to rob banks?  Now banks robbed people.

What this picture shows is that government, economists, and presstitutes are allied against citizens achieving any financial independence from personal saving.

Exactly.  I explored this with Indiana’s treatment of food stamp recipients.  They would start taking away food stamp dollars for every $100 a person made in A MONTH.  That money would pay for gas to even get to work, for extra food (because believe me, it is not enough money for an entire month of food), for haircuts, for necessary items like soap, detergent, trash bags (I saw folks so poor that they were using the plastic grocery bags for their trash), and for other items needed for every day life.

My blogs on food stamps here — a professor on food stamps,  and here — the faces behind food stamps,  here — war on the poor with a judge’s indifference, and here.

Throughout the Western world the financial system has become an exploiter of the people and a deadweight loss on economies. There are only two possible solutions. One is to break the large banks up into smaller and local entities such as existed prior to the concentration that deregulation fostered. The other is to nationalize them and operate them solely in the interest of the general welfare of the population.

I would say that there is a third and possible fourth option:  1. Bartering.  Doing away with currency altogether.  2. Either continue to use paper currency, or as some communities did during the Depression, they made up their own currency and traded it like dollars until the banks relented.   Doing a quick research, I found this:  Berkshares — a created currency.

I love this:

BerkShares are printed in 1, 5, 10, 20, and 50 BerkShare denominations, and feature images of local people.

• The 1 BerkShare note uses a portrait of a Mahican, the original inhabitants of the area.
• The 5 BerkShare note uses a portrait of W. E. B. Du Bois, a civil rights leader born in Great Barrington.
• The 10 BerkShare note uses a portrait of Robyn Van En, co-founder of the community supported agriculture movement at Indian Line Farm in South Egremont, Massachusetts, died in 1997.
• The 20 BerkShare note uses a portrait of Herman Melville, the author of Moby-Dick, written in Pittsfield, Massachusetts.
• The 50 BerkShare note uses a portrait of Norman Rockwell, a painter who lived in Stockbridge, Massachusetts

This has more benefits than just being independent as hell, but that it seeks to make a more sustainable economic impact by limiting truck traffic via local purchasing.

Treehugger also has a piece up on local currency.

With all the dire news on the economic collapse, I think it’s important to realize all is not lost and there are options …don’t give in to fear, but see it as an opportunity to break away from the Big Banks’ chokehold on the economy.  If they don’t have any power, they no longer can rule.  We need to learn to take back our power.

Personally, of all of these, I like bartering the best.  I think money no longer holds a true value of the hours of labor it took to earn that dollar.  Bartering has that quality…BUT I recall that when this was done, there are those that were taken advantage of and so that could also mean not getting the true value of one’s labor.  As I write that, I’m thinking of women’s efforts…like sewing and knitting.  Today, as well as then, women were not given the true value of their labor.  Without machines, it took much longer to create a garment.  Even now, a machine cannot create. It cannot put pieces of material together without a human doing the actual physical act of putting piece A with piece B, and so on.  It’s always been valued less than men’s work.

So…unless economies and creation of currency have women’s input — and by saying that, I mean women who would do the actual work –then there won’t be a true representation of labor efforts.  Women need to be a part of the discussion.

I’ve mentioned before that I had this terrible feeling that the extended school days were a way to pull kids away from their parents — keeping kids in school until 5:00, a very long day for them — and essentially breaking up families.  They no sooner get home, and have to do homework.  If they are involved in after school sports, with the added time for homework, they essentially have no down time with their parents.  No time to just sit and think.

The child would be on a bus two hours before school.  No time for breakfast….so the school would provide one.  This also applies for smaller communities that don’t have that bus time, but nevertheless, the parents are poor and cannot afford to feed their own children healthy, nutritious breakfasts.  This was one of my pet peeves when working as a substitute — kids would be sooo hungry by 10:00 a.m. that they could not concentrate on their schoolwork.  It upset me that parents were either too poor to feed them, or they were so rushed because they had jobs to get to that the child went without breakfast.

And when I see programs for breakfasts for kids…I think “why aren’t they paying parents enough so they can afford to feed their children…?

In the 60s and 70s, with a stay-at-home Mom, kids got breakfast and most households could afford the basics.  The importance of this becomes more and more apparent as I see the fabric of society tearing.  I see the kids being put in childcare before they can even speak.  They are handed over to adults whose only connection is the paycheck they get each week from the parent.  This is not their child, so their involvement stops at there.  Nobody is going to care for one’s child more than a parent. I’ve seen horror stories of childcare workers bullying children and even pitting children against one another for their own entertainment.

The stay-at-home Moms also have a chance to really get to know their child.  I wonder now at young Moms who are rushed in the mornings to get to a job, rushed at night to get dinner on (or worse, pop something in the microwave that is not nutritious and introducing radiation into the home); and not really having a chance to understand their child and the child’s unique pace of development.

So…this morning, I’m watching the Weather Channel, which sidesteps chemtrails/geoengineering, but will go on and on about tornadoes, floods, and earthquakes.  During this segment, they were talking about whether a child should be sent home during a tornado warning.

Now, that in itself seems pretty normal.

But what was not normal was how they were talking –my Communications ears perked up at the language.

They said things like “perhaps the child does not have a safe home to go to…”

Say what?

They also said things like the school should determine whether the school was safer than the child’s home.

They insinuated that they knew better than the child’s parents.  And that they were construction engineers that would determine the safety of the child’s home.  Yep.

And the school that was flattened in Oklahoma a few years ago flashed in my head.

There is no way that they could tell whether a child is safer at home or at the school.  A tornado is so powerful and so unpredictable that there are countless stories of tornadoes flattening one building while leaving the one right next to it untouched.  One cannot say with certainty that a person is safer in one building than another.  And the Weather Channel itself glorifies those storm chasers who will be right next to a tornado, out in the open…and survive.  Hmmm…

So…that begs the question of why they are now trying to say a school will determine whether a child is safer at school than at home.  That is a parent’s right to decide.  I got that sick feeling in my gut about this…